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Welcome to the October issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group.

Competition, marketing and foreign investment law saw a number of changes in the past year.

Recently, several Treaty 9 First Nations announced their intention to commence litigation against the governments of Ontario and Canada challenging the Crown's exclusive jurisdiction...

Davies' Investment Canada Act guide provides foreign investors with essential information about national security reviews and net benefit assessments when establishing or acquiring Canadian businesses. The comprehensive resource outlines review processes, timing considerations, and regulatory requirements that non-Canadian entities must navigate when investing in Canada.

On December 7, 2022, the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-34, An Act to amend the Investment Canada Act, to modernize Canada's foreign investment review law, the Investment Canada Act (ICA).

1.1 What is the national policy with regard to the review of foreign investments (including transactions) on national security and public order grounds?

Further to the UK Government's recent addition of a new public interest criterion under the UK merger control regime (considered in our previous update), further revisions to the regime...

Resolving commercial disputes efficiently is vital in the modern business world. Until relatively recently, the burden of doing so fell on those national court systems that seemed to capture the bulk of such disputes. But economic liberalisation and technological change have been altering the global economy. In particular, business has responded to the fall of trade barriers by expanding abroad and forging cross-border partnerships and joint ventures of every description.

In the January 9, 2015 noteworthy decision Hupacasath First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), the Federal Court of Appeal provided clarity on two important issues.

The onset and continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a global disruption to M&A activity in 2020. Unsurprisingly, the Canadian power sector saw a marked decline, ...

Welcome to the August issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments...

Welcome to the October issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments.

Le contexte économique actuel pourrait bien induire des changements dans les normes et les tendances relatives aux examens réalisés en vertu de la Loi sur la concurrence et de la Loi sur Investissement Canada) (la « LIC »).

In our annual forecast of the year ahead for Canadian competition and foreign investment review law, we evaluate how developments in 2019 will influence these areas of the law in 2020.

Welcome to the April issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides...

Against a backdrop of globalized trade and cross-border transactions, many Québec businesses are drawing interest from foreign buyers and international capital. These transactions raise complex regulatory issues under the Investment Canada Act, a federal law that governs all investments made in Canada by non-Canadians, with requirements that extend far beyond what many business owners anticipate.

As the COVID-19 vaccination program continues to roll out across North America, corporate Canada's decision-makers are putting domestic and cross-border growth plans to work...

On July 19, 2018, the Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") published final amendments ("Amendments") to National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions ("NI 45-106") and its related Companion Policy that will amend the exempt distribution report set out on Form 45-106F1 - Report of Exempt Distribution (the "New Report").